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Show Scanning The News Top U.S. Skier Dies Compiled from Associated Press SAMEDAN, Switzerland Wallace Bud Werner, one of America's Amer-ica's top ski racers, and a West German women's champion perished while making a sports fashion fovie Sunday in one of three avalanches of wet snow that thundered down Alpine slopes. In all, 31 skiers were trapped and seven of them, all believed to be Swiss, were missing. Killed with 28-year-old Werner, who retired from competition competi-tion in March, was Barbara Barbi Henneberger, 23, a member of the German Olympics team at Innsbruck in January. LEAVENWORTH, Kan. A tornado struck downtown Leavenworth Leaven-worth late Sunday, skipping up and down as it traversed the business district. There was considerable damage, the sheriff's office said. The twister cut a path about a quarter of a mile wide. The sheriffs office said there was an unconfirmed report of one fatality and reports of some injuries. Plate glass windows were blown out and roofs blown off. BRUSSELS, Belgium Premier Theo Lefevre's government requisitioned hospital physicians and mobilized reserve army doctors doc-tors Sunday in a determined bid to break the back of Belgium's medical strike. First reports indicated these steps were meeting with some success and that some disgruntled physicians were falling into line. Strike leaders still held out, however. They claimed the government gov-ernment made it impossible for them to negotiate a compromise on the controversial socialized medicine statute, cause of the 12-day-old walkout. WASHINGTON Five New York City banks and one on Long Island have been bilked out of $221,000 by a gang of international in-ternational swindlers operating in Latin America and Europe. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service, confirming this Sunday, said it has launched an investigation because the gang's operations have involved tampering with the mails. Interpol, the international police organization, also has been alerted and one ringleader of the swindlers has been reported arrested ar-rested in Davos, Switzerland. Another woman member, who rifled one New York bank account of $20,000 is being trailed across Europe, postal informants inform-ants here said. |
